vrhsapenglishcomp - Weeks 17-18 Focus on Visual Literacy It's more than advertisements, paintings and photographs

APE Home, Syllabus, Summer Work, Q1,Q2 Home, Weeks 10-12, Weeks 13-14 , Weeks 15-16 , Q3, Essential Handouts, **AP English Test Review**, General Resources, Grammar, MLA Citations, Quotes, Random Stuff, Knights of the Goose Quill, TED Talks, Interactive Quizzes, What is Ms. S reading?, College Essay

Required Reading/Viewing:

Reading Images A beginning list of a few websites where you can practice reading visuals rhetorically as well as view documentaries.

MSNBC Multimedia Images
Rhetoric and the World of Advertising

Supplemental Reading/Viewing: Pattern, Symmetry, Set design, Costumes, Lighting, Color, Story, Argumentation?

TED Ways of Seeing
TED The Power of Cartoons
TED talk telling story through Emoticons
Torvill and Dean Gold Medal Ice Dancing Performance 1984 Olympics
Addiction
Introductory Dance Lesson from Swing Time (Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers)
Top Hat and Tails from Top Hat (Fred Astaire)
Cheek to Cheek from Top Hat (Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers)
Fred and Ginger on Roller Skatescause you know dancin's not hard enough . . .
Fred Astaire famous ceiling dance from Royal Wedding (the audio is terrible) Check this out--before CGI and Inception
Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire in The Band Wagon
Now Add Props...Fred dances with firecrackers, a drum set, a coat rack, a golf club, and a piano...really
Excerpts from Singin' in the Rain
Cell Block Tango from Chicago the movie (Catherine Zeta-Jones)
The Disney Cell Block Tango (compare with previous)
I Got Rhythm from An American in Paris (Gene Kelly)
from It's Always Fair Weather (Gene Kelly tap dances on roller skate)s
from It's Always Fair Weather (Gene Kelly taps with trash can lid)s
Puttin' on the Ritz (Fred Astaire)
Say it with Firecrackers from Holiday Inn (Fred Astaire)

Images to Write About

Great Image Site - Getty Images file

Websites for Political Cartoons Resource